Choral services
Sung prayer has been offered in Westminster Abbey nearly every day for over a thousand years. Today, services are sung daily during term time by the world-renowned Choir of Westminster Abbey, and by visiting choirs when the Abbey Choir is in recess.
The music sung ranges from Gregorian chant dating from the first millennium to contemporary music and encompasses the remarkable richness and variety of the Anglican choral tradition.
This week's choral services
| Sunday, 21st April 2024 | ||
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| Fourth Sunday of Easter | ||
| 10.00am | Matins | Quire |
| sung by the Lay Vicars | Rose Responses |
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| 11.15am | Sung Eucharist | Quire |
| sung by the Lay Vicars | Guerrero Missa Surge propera Preacher: The Right Reverend Anthony Ball Sub-Dean and Canon Rector |
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| 3.00pm | Evensong | Quire |
| sung by the Lay Vicars | Praetorius Surrexit Christus Dominus Preacher: The Venerable Tricia Hillas Canon in Residence |
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| 6.00pm | Sung Eucharist | St Margaret's Church |
| sung by the St Margaret's Choristers and Consort | Mozart Missa brevis in D Preacher: The Right Reverend Anthony Ball Sub-Dean and Canon Rector |
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| Monday, 22nd April 2024 | ||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire |
| sung by the Choristers | plainsong Ad coenam Agni providi |
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| Tuesday, 23rd April 2024 | ||
| St George, martyr, patron of England, c 303 | ||
| 5.00pm | Evensong with Installation of The Reverend Helena Bickley-Percival as Chaplain | Quire |
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Byrd Terra tremuit et quievit |
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| Thursday, 25th April 2024 | ||
| St Mark the Evangelist | ||
| Anzac Day | ||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire |
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Victoria O quam gloriosum est regnum |
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| Friday, 26th April 2024 | ||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire |
| attended by HE The High Commissioner for Tanzania, sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Byrd Terra tremuit et quievit |
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| Saturday, 27th April 2024 | ||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire |
| marking the centenary of the burial of Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924), composer; sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Rose Responses |
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